Traders say “persistent” anti-social behaviour is putting off “frightened” customers from visiting an already struggling out-of-town shopping centre.

Lots of people committed crimes and were jailed this month and are now spending time behind bars.

A Border Force officer who moonlighted as a drug dealer has been jailed after being caught trying to sell 5,000 MDMA pills.

A 55-year-old mum-of-two has been handed a life sentence for stabbing a pub landlord to death.

Two teenagers who stole a car involved in a police chase before it collided with another vehicle, causing serious injuries, have admitted guilt.

A county lines dealer has been jailed after investigators found he was holding a phone used to supply class A drugs.

Armed police descended on a town centre following reports of a suspect making threats with a weapon.

A burglar who fled court was back in the dock this week along with two men who helped him after his escape.

Six men who threw away promising careers as semi-professional footballers to deal drugs have been jailed for a total of more than 100 years.

Officers investigating a spate of thefts recovered two vehicles in one Kent town which had been reported stolen just days earlier.

A 20-strong motorcycle group reportedly swarmed a van before dragging out the driver and repeatedly raining blows at a family leisure park.

A bag of class A drugs and more than £1,000 have been seized after a police raid on a street.

Pictures show a BMW left dumped in a protected stream following a police chase.

A suspect has been arrested and taken into custody after a man was allegedly raped in a play area.

A teenager armed himself with a machete in a street after a window at his grandparents' home was deliberately smashed.

A police search for a half-naked man proved fruitless after he was reportedly seen prowling fields in a village.

Officers attended following reports a man was carrying a weapon but the suspected Samurai sword turned out to be something else.

A second man has been charged in connection with the stabbing of a popular restaurant worker near a train station.

A dad was left horrified after his young daughter found and picked up a razor-sharp blade feared to have been buried “maliciously” in a sandpit.

A "vulnerable" man had his flat set on fire after his neighbour and an accomplice subjected him to a vicious beating with a baseball bat.